Remembering Adam Herrman, born Irvin Groeninger III, has been missing since May 1999, almost 13 years

Adams adoptive Parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman went to prison for collecting adoption subsidies from the state and never reporting Adam missing.

Kansas Family Rights Coalition January 2012

Kansas Laws CINC Child In Need Of Care:

KSA 38-2231 Law enforcement can place a child in protective custody if LEO reasonably believes the child will be harmed

Kansas Family Rights Coalition: Don and Phyllis Porter, PCJustice Advocate http://pcjustice.wordpress.com iamdonporter@gmail.com Donna Roberts ACRA, Child Advocate AChildsRights@att.net Marlene Jones, Activist/Advocate CincUnconstitutional@gmail.com Kathy Winters, Grandparent Advocate kathywinters05@yahoo.com AngelFury@AngelFury.org Activist http://www.angelfury.org PMA ~ Kansas Chapter Leader KansasPMA@gmail.com Elisa Breitenbach, Activist/Advocate ElisaB55@att.net Justice For Families For Change, Advocate JusticeForFamiliesForChange@gmail.com ChangingKansas@gmail.com http://changingkansas.blogspot.com

2008, The Year the Sedgwick County DA admitted to filing boiler plate petitions. Taken
from the Wichita Eagle

Sedgwick County DA Nola Foulston and Ron Paschal, a deputy district attorney, told parents that court cases have to be KSA 38-2242 (2) No child filed soon after a child is shall be kept in protective custody longer than 72 hours, removed, and often end up with "boilerplate" paragraphs when excluding weekends and filed. Lawyers for the families can holidays advocate to have those documents KSA 38-2214 Duties of changed, Paschal pointed out. county or district attorney "But I've asked my court KSA 38-2234 Pleadings made appointed attorney to do that, and by the DA and facts of the he didn't," one mother said. "But that's a problem with your case attorney," Foulston said. KSA 38-2250 Degree of proof. The petitioner must prove by clear and convincing UPCOMING evidence that the child is a LEGISLATION: child in need of care Many Thanks to AG KSA 38-2251 If that burden is not met, the court must dismiss the proceedings KSA 38-2251(c) A final adjudication or dismissal of a CINC petition must be entered within sixty days of when the petition was filed, unless good cause for a continuance is shown on the record
Derek Schmidt for recommending child protection laws including the following: Strengthen prohibition on sexual contact between foster parents and foster children: Expand the crime of Unlawful Sexual Relations to include foster parents and contractors in the definition of position of trust.

UPCOMING LEGISLATION: Donna Roberts, ACRA, A Childs Rights Advocate, will be resubmitting the Protective Parent Reform Act to keep parents from losing custody of their children after reporting abuse.

ALARM! According to Kansas own records, children are being placed in the homes of abusers. Reunification: Its unethical and a conflict of interest that Youthville employees are fostering and adopting Kansas children. Youthville employees attend hearings, makes recommendations to the court on placement, schedule parent/child time, and failed to reunify the standard 69% of the children within the first 12 months.

Kansas Family Rights Coalition January 2012

Children are being placed in the homes of abusers, PERFORMANCE AUDIT REPORT, Dated July 2011, Foster Care: Reviewing Selected Issues Related to Compensation and Oversight of Foster Care Contractors On Page 28 of the report it showed that the childs goal kept changing due to the circumstances of his father who was convicted for child endangerment and arrested for sexual abuse the child and his sisters were reintegrated with their father after he was released from prison. "SRS management takes a hands-off approach to overseeing contractors. "One SRS staff member said we just check boxes. Another staff member said that staff arent comfortable giving their opinions because SRS central office has told them not to do so." Youthville does not meet the standard for reunification. Within the first 12 months of removal, the standard is that 69.9% of children are to be reunified with their parents. Youthville has not met this standard, only 31-46% were reunified.
http://www.kansas.gov/postaudit/audits_perform/r-11-011.pdf FY2012 Percent Reunified, July 1st, 2011 to Nov 30th, 2011 Kansas served 6,388 children, reunified 833 children, 13% were reunified, average length of stay 18.1 months Sedgwick County served 1,060, reunified 88 children, 8% were reunified, average length of stay 22.6 months National Average 51% were reunified with their families, average length of stay 13.5 months http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2012DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/ OOHPChildrenServedSFY2012.pdf http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2012DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/LengthofstayFY2012.pdf http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/tar/report18.htm FY2011 Percent Reunified, July 1st, 2010 to June 30th, 2011 Kansas served 8,264 children, reunified 1,874 children, 22% were reunified, average length of stay 19.6 months Sedgwick County served 1,453 children, reunified 247, 16% were reunified, average length of stay 24.7 months http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2011DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/ OOHPChildrenServedSFY2011.pdf http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2011DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/LengthofstayFY2011.pdf FY2010 Percent Reunified, July 1st, 2009 to June 30th, 2010 Kansas served 8,275, reunified 1,720 children, 20% were reunified, average length of stay 24 months Sedgwick County served 1,542, reunified 180 children, 11% were reunified, average length of stay 39 months http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2010DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/ OOHPChildrenServedSFY2010.pdf http://www.srs.ks.gov/agency/cfs/Documents/FY2010DataReports/ServedinSRScustody/LengthofstayFY2010.pdf 2